Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

Doing things differently changes everything. Changing our mind about what is important changes everything. What is as it needs to be in your life? What holds it in place? How does making something better somewhere else mess with what is just right as it is? How can you make things better without making them worse?Continue reading “December 02-B, 2022”

Finding people we can trust who know more than we do about what’s what and what the rules are governing what to do about it is our life’s task through all of the stages of life, and there be many. Who, okay, whom, do you trust? How many people belong to your circle of trust?Continue reading “December 01-B, 2022”

The tides and the seasons, going and coming. My wife and I are reaching the end of our lives, and we have a great-granddaughter due in April. It doesn’t end. Our genes and our influence continue to impact life long after we are gone. Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180 CE) said: “Cold or warm. TiredContinue reading “December 01-A, 2022”

My drift through the aging process appears to be away from activity and involvement, and toward observation, reflection, exploration, and playing with my life just to see what it can do, and what I can do with it. I don’t have any goals or intentions beyond being present and seeing what happens. Staying home andContinue reading “November 30-A, 2022”

The things that restore our soul are the essential things. The wasteland is everywhere. Oases are hard to find. When we stumble upon them, we need to mark them well, and return to them often– spending as much time in their presence as circumstances allow. What form does your yoga take? Where do you findContinue reading “November 29-B, 2022”

Just go do what needs to be done. You will find all that you need to do it. It is the way. Time after time. Spontaneously arising out of nowhere, but, mostly out of your own sense of what needs to be done in order to do what needs to be done. Trust your ownContinue reading “November 28-B, 2022”

There is no immunity, and we spend a major portion of our life making our peace with our vulnerabilities. Instability and uncertainty are just how it is upon the heaving waves of the wine dark sea. How are you coming with that? It helps to whine, moan and complain. Mope about and wallow in depressionContinue reading “November 27-B, 2022”

We think it would be great if we could write the script for our life. What would really be great is letting our life have the reins and allowing it to show us what it has in mind. Just getting out of the way and permitting our life to live itself. Having no agenda orContinue reading “November 27-A, 2022”

Jesus said, “Do not throw your pearls before swine, and do not give to dogs what is holy!” And the Syrophoenician woman said, “Even dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the table, and it rains on the just and on the pigs alike. and the sun shines on the just and the pigs alike.”Continue reading “November 26-D, 2022”

There is nothing more to it than this: 1) See what’s happening in each situation as it arises. 2) Be right about what needs to be done in response. 3)Do it. 4) Repeat through all situations as they arise. All the ethical, moral, spiritual, theological, philosophical orations through the ages go into the burning barrelContinue reading “November 25-B, 2022”

We are to our lives as a river is to its channel. The river cuts the channel as the channel shapes and restricts the river. Who is in charge, in control? The circumstances are in control. How much rainfall? For how long? How often? The river cannot be separated from its channel, or channel fromContinue reading “November 24-C, 2022”

Our memories shape us, creating a background tone for our life and setting us up for a future conditioned by our past no matter what we do there. Living to redeem our past or to repeat it are equally bound to it, and we cannot step away from how we got here to just beContinue reading “November 24-B, 2022”